Originally posted by jbwhttail:
This debate should not be about moving gun season(which I support), if you want more deer YOU must be willing to cut gun seasons, ALL of THEM in half at least. You aren't going to get rid of the crossguns, they are in archery to stay. Look at Ohio and what crossbows have done to their gun seasons, worthless at best! The crossbow harvest replaced gun hunting.
It will be forgotten in History, but we had a better plan, the majority reigned as they should.
As I said for many years, "own or lease, or you get public land hunting", permission hunting has now become "public land" hunting.
You guys that wanted 1.0 should be happy if crossbow inclusion leads to higher archery totals and lower gun totals. If higher archery totals (especially for antler less deer) occur, that helps to show that archery can be a management tool in Indiana, when in the past it was looked upon as "recreation".
Does that mean gun seasons will be shortened and/or moved? I don't know, but I do know that a more legitimate case could be made @ that time.
And that just wasn't the case a couple of years ago.
